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CLP: Summer Reading Suggestions
Below is a list of reading suggestions that either relate thematically to what we cover in the Civic Leadership Program classes or that would commonly be taught in 10th, 11th, or 12th grade English classes that we won’t cover due to the nature of our coursework.
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Rising 9th Graders
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Rising 10th Graders
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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Odyssey - Homer
Night - Elie Wiesel
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Animal Farm - George Orwell
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Lord of the Flies - Simon Spurrier
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Iliad - Homer
Antigone - Sophocles
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Siddhartha - Hesse
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
Biblical Excerpts (often alluded to):
- The creation story: Genesis 1-2
- Noah: Genesis 6-9
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Rising 11th Graders
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Rising 12th Graders
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Houses for the People - Gervase Wheeler
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tribe - Sebastian Junger
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
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Othello - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Into the Wild - John Krakauer
1984 - George Orwell
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More than anything, it’s important that people read, so below is a list of high-interest texts recommended by students, teachers, and the librarian at South.
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Sci-Fi
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Fantasy
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The Martian - Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Scyth - Neal Shusterman
Dune - Herbert
Embers of War - Logevall
The Atlantis Gene - Riddle
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Dry - Neil Shusterman
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Maze Runner - James Dashner
Divergent - Veronica Roth
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Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas
Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang
Legendborn - Tracy Deonn
Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross
Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
Fairy Tale - Stephen King
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
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Non-Fiction
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Contemporary
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Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
Packing for Mars - Mary Roach
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
Firekeeper’s Daughter - Angeline Boulley
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Historical Fiction
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Memoirs
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The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Great War - Peter Hart
Atmosphere -Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lovely War - Julie Berry
Mauz - Art Spiegelman
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
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Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
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